Looking For Light: Jane Bown
Movie · Documentary

A revealing portrait of this most self-effacing but great portrait photographer emerges through conversation, anecdote and candid reflection.  In the almost six decades that Jane Bown (b 1925) worked for the Observer newspaper, she became renowned for insightful, highly individualistic portraits of the famous.  Some of these portraits are now regarded as classics of the genre - Samuel Beckett, Queen Elizabeth, the Beatles, Bertrand Russell, Mick Jagger, Margaret Thatcher, etc. Bown´s great mantra is, „photographers should neither be seen nor heardˮ. Diminutive in stature and with an all-important ability to blend into the background, Bown was the antithesis of the Fleet Street, macho photojournalist.  This feature documentary is a beautiful portrait of both Jane Bown, her determination to succeed in an almost exclusively male world, and her process of working as a photographer. It includes interviews with Rankin, Nobby Clark and Don McCullin and her many iconic photographs of the great and the good (and a few bad) of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

2014 · 1h 22m
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Starring Rankin, Nobby Clark, Don McCullin
Director Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte

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Cast & Crew

  • Rankin
    Self
  • N‌C
    Nobby Clark
    Self
  • D‌M
    Don McCullin
    Self
  • L‌D
    Luke Dodd
    Director
  • M‌W
    Michael Whyte
    Director
  • L‌D
    Luke Dodd
    Producer
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    Michael Whyte
    Producer
  • J‌M
    Janine Marmot
    Producer

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Looking For Light: Jane Bown

Documentary

A revealing portrait of this most self-effacing but great portrait photographer emerges through conversation, anecdote and candid reflection.  In the almost six decades that Jane Bown (b 1925) worked for the Observer newspaper, she became renowned for insightful, highly individualistic portraits of the famous.  Some of these portraits are now regarded as classics of the genre - Samuel Beckett, Queen Elizabeth, the Beatles, Bertrand Russell, Mick Jagger, Margaret Thatcher, etc. Bown´s great mantra is, „photographers should neither be seen nor heardˮ. Diminutive in stature and with an all-important ability to blend into the background, Bown was the antithesis of the Fleet Street, macho photojournalist.  This feature documentary is a beautiful portrait of both Jane Bown, her determination to succeed in an almost exclusively male world, and her process of working as a photographer. It includes interviews with Rankin, Nobby Clark and Don McCullin and her many iconic photographs of the great and the good (and a few bad) of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

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Studio
Soda Pictures
Released
2014
Run Time
1 hr 22 min
Rated
Unrated
Region of Origin
United Kingdom
© 2014 Soda Pictures

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English (United Kingdom), English
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